Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:18 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting SD card. Message-ID: <201211142058.18913.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAGwOe2bDa2rYpVie3L_E-6=d%2B9uKkoeOHJE9bboAivM5X5rWhw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGwOe2bDa2rYpVie3L_E-6=d%2B9uKkoeOHJE9bboAivM5X5rWhw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 14 November 2012 19:43:30 Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> If I boot the system and plug the SD card in, the green led
> doesn't even switch on and there is only a /dev/da0 that I can not
> mount. If I boot the system with the card plugged in, the green led is
> on and there is a /dev/da0s1 device that I can't still mount because
> mount_msdosfs returns an Input/Output error after some time.
I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be
to "wake" it up with the following incantation:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0
That's what works here. See the thread starting with
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html>;
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Mike Clarke
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